#eve

I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so. ↗

— Larry Holmes

#different #even #every #fan #fighters

I think George Foreman must have gained about 350 lbs and is slow as ever. ↗

— Larry Holmes

#ever #foreman #gained #george #george foreman

I was probably the best that ever walked this earth. And I could take a punch. I could deliver a punch. I didn't have the hardest punch in the world but my punches were sharp and they were crisp. And if you took too many of them, you would be knocked out. ↗

— Larry Holmes

#could #crisp #deliver #earth #ever

We put our life on the line to fight for them, put on a show and these guys take our money so whatever happens to Bob Arum, Don King or anyone else is fine with me. ↗

— Larry Holmes

#bob #don king #else #fight #fine

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#breathing #every #fold #rose #sweets

The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#expanded #ideas #larger #mind #never

To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#forty #forty years #hopeful #more #old

One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#idea #mind #never #new #new idea

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#air #bad #fresh #fresh air #good

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#all day #break #bubble #day #evening